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- Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated, Fueling Skyrocketing Value, Researchers Say (June 2018, New York Times)
- Large Bitcoin Player Manipulated Price Sharply Higher, Study Says (November 2019, Wall Street Journal)
- Podcast – Bitcoin Comes Untethered (November 2019, Wall Street Journal)
- Bitcoin’s astronomical rise last year was buoyed by market manipulation, researchers say (June 2018, Washington Post)
- Has bitcoin come to the end of its Tether? (June 2018, Financial Times)
- A Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Surge, Study Finds (November 2019, Bloomberg)
- The World’s Most-Used Cryptocurrency Isn’t Bitcoin (September 2019, Bloomberg)
- On Crypto Exchanges, the Trades Don’t Always Add Up (July 2019, Bloomberg)
- Tether Used to Manipulate Price of Bitcoin During 2017 Peak: New Study (June 2018, Bloomberg)
- Cryptocurrency tether used to boost bitcoin prices, study finds (June 2018, Reuters)
- A single anonymous market manipulator caused bitcoin to top $20,000 two years ago, study shows (November 2019, CNBC)
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Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS)
Op-Ed
Other Media
- $4.4 Billion EOS Token Raise Fueled by Wash Trading, Says New Research (September 2021, Decrypt)
- Crypto Exchanges Have a Plan to Beat Binance: Play by the Rules (July 2021, Bloomberg)
- Is Bitcoin Safe? (February 2021, Money)
- Behind the Bitcoin Bubble (January 2021, Wall Street Journal Opinion)
- The Tether Controversy: A Brief History (January 2021, Decrypt)
- How a Japanese Rice Farmer Got Tangled Up in the Hertz Bankruptcy (November 2020, Wall Street Journal)
- Bitcoin Gains Ground on Gold, Bolsters Claim as the Asset of Tomorrow (May 2020, Cointelegraph)
- Controversial Crypto Coin Tether Gains Popularity at Gambling Sites, Pot Shops (October 2019, Bloomberg)
- Bitcoin prices have been manipulated, study says (June 2018, CNN)
- What If Bitcoin, Crypto Prices Are Being Manipulated? (June 2018, Forbes)
- Bitcoin whales get bigger, threatening price swings (December 2019, Los Angeles Times)
- The Real Reason Behind Bitcoin’s Epic Rally Revealed? (November 2019, Forbes)
- Who are the bamboozlers manipulating the cost of bitcoin now? (November 2019, New York Post)
- Bitcoin’s Record Price Surge of 2017 Caused by a Single Person, Study Claims (November 2019, The Independent)
- Mysterious Bitcoin Player Manipulated Cryptocurrency to Historic $326 Billion Market Value, Study Claims (November 2019, Newsweek)
- Bitcoin’s bubble was the result of one big player: Study (November 2019, Fox Business)
- Crypto Coin With $21 Billion in Daily Volume Sparks Regulator Concerns (October 2019, Investopedia)
- CryptoKitties Ran Wild on Ethereum First. Now Tether Is Clogging the Digital Ledger (October 2019, Fortune)
- Cheating in Marriage May Mean Cheating at Work (October 2019, Psych Central)
- Tether, not Libra, may be the cryptocurrency behind bitcoin’s surge (June 2019, Quartz)
- Crypto Exchanges Suffering Major Outflows Even As Bitcoin Soars (June 2019, Investopedia)
- Tether Says Stablecoin is only Backed by 74 Cash Securities (April 2019, Bloomberg)
- As bitcoin nosedives, regulators said to be investigating whether it was propped up illegally (November 2018, CNBC)
- Crypto Coin Tether Defies Logic on Kraken’s Market, Raising Red Flags (June 2018, Bloomberg)
- CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom, Study Shows (October 2018, Bloomberg)
- Much of bitcoin’s 2017 boom was market manipulation, research says (June 2018, CNBC)
- Whistleblower alleges manipulation of Cboe volatility index (February 2018, Reuters)
- Bitcoin prices have been manipulated, study says (June 2018, CNN)
- What If Bitcoin, Crypto Prices Are Being Manipulated? (June 2018, Forbes)
- Bitcoin’s price has been manipulated with another cryptocurrency: tether, professor says (June 2018, Los Angeles Times)
- Bitcoin prices were manipulated: study (June 2018, The Hill)
- CRYPTO: From VIX to bitcoin—a story of market manipulation (June 2018, Yahoo Finance)
- Tether Manipulation Pushed Up Bitcoin’s Price, Researchers Find (June 2018, CoinDesk)
- Bitcoin Frauds Keep Growing (June 2018, Naked Capitalism)
- Bitcoin Price Manipulation Fueled Top Cryptocurrency’s 2017 Rally: Report (June 2018, The Inquisitr)
- Is Bitcoin Going to Zero? (June 2018, Yahoo Finance)
- ‘The mother of all crypto scams’: Bitcoin’s price manipulated during ‘meteoric rise’, researchers find (June 2018, News.com AU)
- Bitcoin’s astronomical rise last year could be buoyed by market manipulation, researchers say (June 2018, Spokesman Review)
- The hunt for bitcoin market manipulation is gaining momentum (June 2018, Quartz)
- Crypto Extend Losses Amid Reports That Bitcoin Prices Was Manipulated During 2017 (June 2018, Investing.com)
- Research Says Bitcoin’s Rise Caused By Market Manipulation (June 2018, BroBible)
- Bitcoin’s record-high 2017 price was result of market manipulation, claims study (June 2018, TechSpot)
- Bitcoin price analysis: BTC/USD recovers from Wednesday’s lows; the crypto bubble might have been engineered, research shows (June 2018, FX Street)
- New Research Shows Bitcoin’s Meteoric Rise Was a Scam (June 2018, San Antonio Express)
- Bitcoin Today: Prices Attempt to Rally Following Early Weakness (June 2018, The Street)
- Was bitcoin’s rise built on a lie? (June 2018, PitchBook)
- Bitcoin is slipping after a study found signs its 2017 bull run was driven by market manipulation (June 2018, Markets Insider)
- Bitcoin’s Atmospheric Rise Might Have Been Tied To Tether (June 2018, PYMENTS)
- Bitcoin is slipping after study claims its 2017 bull run was driven by market manipulation (June 2018, Business Insider)
- Report: The bitcoin boom may have been caused by price manipulation (June 2018, Fast Company)
- Bitcoin Prices Are Falling Again. Here’s What’s Behind the Latest Plunge (June 2018, Money)
- Bitcoin prices manipulated, says study (June 2018, Whistleblower Online)
- Is Bitcoin a SCAM? Cryptocurrency’s huge price spike last year was caused by massive ‘market manipulation’, claims study (June 2018, Daily Mail UK)
- Bitcoin’s 2017 Surge Was the Result of Manipulation, Experts Say (June 2018, Futurism)
- Bitcoin’s record price was artificially manipulated, research claims (June 2018, New York Post)
- Bitcoin’s price was artificially inflated last year, researchers say (June 2018, Toronto Star)
- Remember how Bitcoin’s value soared in 2017? Most of it was market manipulation: study (June 2018, Global News)
- New Research Shows Bitcoin’s Meteoric Rise Was a Scam (June 2018, The Entrepreneur)
- Bitcoin’s price was artificially inflated last year, researchers say (June 2018, Boston Globe)
- Bitcoin’s rise might be linked to price manipulation, study indicates (June 2018, The Verge)
- Market manipulation was key factor in Bitcoin’s bull run, researchers say (June 2018, The Next Web)
- Academics Claim Tether Used to Pump the Price of Bitcoin on the Bitfinex Exchange (June 2018, Crowdfund Insider)
- US researchers claim bitcoin’s price was manipulated during 2017 spike (June 2018, Silicon Republic)
- New Research Claims Bitcoin Price was Manipulated using Tether (June 2018, News BTC)
- Crypto Collapse Accelerates As Bitcoin Miners Turn Cashflow Negative (June 2018, Zero Hedge)
- Bitcoin’s price was artificially inflated last year, researchers say (June 2018, San Francisco Gate)
- Bitcoin prices have been manipulated, study says (June 2018, Channel3000)
- How S&P 500 options may be used to manipulate VIX ‘fear gauge’ (June 2017, MarketWatch Opinion)
- Study: Top Bankers Suffered No Career Penalties Since Financial Crisis (June 2017, Vocativ)
